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… Global chocolate brands can’t exist without cocoa According to the  International Cocoa Organization (ICCO), global cocoa bean production in 2017-2018  was 4.6 million metric tons . … with the help of funding from Mars Wrigley. The annotated genome has been updated to a high quality modern …

… genomes, researchers were able to carry out a broader analysis than had ever been done before to look at how multiple forest fungi have … and lignin in plant cell walls, while brown rot cannot break down the lignin but use cellulose. Finally, there … the European Regional Development Fund and the Plant-Microbe Interfaces Scientific Focus Area in the Genomic Science …

… single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC Berkeley plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she … to teach us about other organisms – like plants. [ Editor’s Note: Merchant is also a faculty scientist in the …

… Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately identify mobile genetic elements like … common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software … Lab), with computing resources provided by NERSC, another user facility at Berkeley Lab. geNomad is now …

… How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science … pathways could lead to the discovery of genes that could be used for multiple biotechnological applications. These … now available for male and female plants of fire moss. Most notably, the work revealed that the U and V sex chromosomes …

… Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable to disease and climate shifts. So researchers are looking into a desert …

… since the inception of the flagship internship program between the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and University of California (UC), Merced. What started with … program cofounder and Applied Math professor at UC Merced, noted that the part that was the most rewarding of all the …

…   For years, researchers have known that many datasets miss a key part of microbial genomes: the mobile genetic elements, or MGEs, that can move between organisms. But now, deep sequencing and new analysis … and opening up new options for engineering these microbes in the future. Join Sarah Bagby (Case Western Reserve …

… but never published in the literature. These students analyze the genomes, write reports, and publish first-author papers, making the data available … for future research. Hear from Rekha Seshadri (JGI) and Matt Escobar (California State San Marcos) about how the …

… SIP experiments shed more light on microbial communities than ever before — especially with the prospect of meta-analyses … of stable, heavy isotopes, SIP allows researchers to go beyond understanding which microbes are present in a sample, … a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing …

… undergraduate resource experience. Hear from CSU San Marcos Professor Matt Escobar and UC Davis Associate Professor Matthias Hess, also the …

… joined the JGI in 2014 to develop the metabolomics program, and in 2019 became Platform Lead where she manages metabolomics … metabolomics with genomic data (MAGI) for functional annotation and identifying unknown compounds (Pactolus). … M de, Wildish T, et al. MAGI: A Method for Metabolite Annotation and Gene Integration. ACS Chem Biol. 2019;14: …